Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1887-01-27
TIE NEW SOUTH.
aIr. Grady's Grand Grafton and ..Harper's
WaeIix,s,, Hearty Comments unan 1t.

NJ. Grady's Grand Grafton and "IIarper's
| weekiy's" Hearty Comments Upon IT.
| The new South has found a striking
and significant expression in the APP
pearance of Mr.. Trenholm, of South
Carolina, the Comptroller of the Cur
rency, and Mr.. Grady, of Georgia, the
editor of the Atlanta Constitution, as
guests at the annual dinner of the New
England Society, in Philadelphia and
! New York respectively. The strain of
remark at these noted dinners is al
ways patriotic, and the speeches natur-
ally TEEN with glowing and tender allu-
sions to the civil war and the Union sol
diers. 1t was signal sign, therefore,
of the actual situation that two of the
strongest Confederates should rise in
the midst of such a Northern company
as gather at these dinners, and by their
personal bearing no less than by the
earnestness and eloquence of their
speeches should show to the most skep-
teal what worthy foes they had been,
and what sincere friends they are.
To these distinguished orators who
in the two great cities spoke for the
new South must be added Mr.. James
Phelan, of Tennessee, who is Just
elected to Congress in the Memphis
district, and who in his own district
and among his own Southern fellow
citizens proved himself to be, with Mr.
Trenholm and Mr.. Grady, a man of
broad comprehension and sagacious
views. All of these gentlemen, it must
be understood, speak as men who,
without remuneration of their local feel
ing, of their State pride or of their
honor and affection for the men with
whom they stood fast for what they
held to be true cause, own without
reservation its defeat and the conse-
quent total change of conditions in the
life around them. Thus Mr.. Phelan
says:
'Bitter to my taste as were the results OF the
civil war, day after day has reconciled me TO
them, and convinced me of the wisdom OF cheer
fnl submission to the will of Him who brought
them about The union OF these States has
been preserved and declared indissoluble A
great and disturbing constitutional question
has been finally and forever settled, and slavery
has been forever abolished; it no longer tar
fishes the fair fame of a great and free Repub-
lie. Because it was involved in the question of
constitutional right 1 fought four years in it's
defense. tell you now, upon the honor of my
manhood, that would fight eight years, though
my hairs are white, against any attempt to re-
instate it in any portion OF this continent
Mr.. Grady's speech was one of the
most striking that have been delivered
by any citizen of Southern State since
the war. 1t was very eloquent. His
tribute to Abraham Lincoln was very !
and the effect of his address
delivered to that New England COM
pany will be most serviceabLe to the |
country:
"Great types, like valuable plants, slow
to flower and fruit, but from the union of these
colonies came he who stands the first typical
the first who comprehended within |
majesty and grace Of this Republic-Abraham |
Lincoln He was the sum of Puritan and Cava- |
lier for in his ardent nature were fused the |
virtues of both, and in the depths of his great |
soul the faults of both were lost; but he was |
greater than Puritan greater than Cavalier, in |
that he was American and in that in his home |
ly form were first gathered the vast and ster- |
ling forces OF this Republic, charging it with such
tremendous meaning and SO elevating it above |
human suffering that rEartyrdom. though in |
aimed, came. as fitting crown to a life |
from the cradle to human Liberty" |
Mr.. Grady said also:
:" The relations of the Southern people with |
the negro are close and cordial We remember |
women and children, whose husbands and faith
ers were fighting against his freedom To his |
eternal credit be il said that whenever he |
struck blow for his own liberty he fought in |
open battle, and when at last he raised lis |
black and humble hands that the Shacliles |
might be struck on, those hands were innocent |
Of wrong against his helpless charges, and |
worthy to be taken in loving grasp by every |
man who honors loyalty and devotion Ruff
fans have maltreated him, rascalS have nlisled |
him. but his treatment in the South to-day is !
an honorable protest against injustice to this |
simple and sincere people. Faith has been |
kept with him in spite of calumnious assertions |
to the contrary by those who assume to speak
for by frank opponents Faith will be |
kept with him in the future If the South holds |
her reason and integrity. The new South is |
of her new work. Her soul is stirred |
with the breath OF new life. AS she stands, /
and equal among the people of the |
earth, breathing the keen air and looking out
upon the limitless. horizon, she understands
that her emancipation came because, i'll the in
scrutable wisdom of God, her honest purpose |
was crossed and her brave armies beaten.
This is said in no spirit of tme-serving aSd
apology. I should be unjust to the South II |
did not make this plain in this presence.
His closing appeal to New England
she will "permit the preju-
dice of the war to remain in the hearts
of the conquerors when it has died in
the hearts of the conquered " was most
and impressive. New England
certainly would be recreant to her own
best impulses if the appeal We're not
answered in the same manly and friend
" spirit in which it is made.-HaTper's
Weekly.
Instead of an injury to reform.